A Week In Olton: Part 1

As tension builds ahead of the grand pub free for all / drinking frenzy, reopening on Saturday I thought it was a good idea to plan a holiday. No ordinary vacation of course but another in the series of “A week in…” which this time heads to my home town of Olton to spend a…

Loving The Lyndon

A Sunday afternoon #blastfromthepast to show Paul WME he doesn’t have the monopoly on estate pubs. Of course, the undisputed king of estate pubs was the late great Alan Winfield.  If you read any of his posts on his blog then you’ll be fully aware of just how he embraced pub life and its true…

A Trip Down Memory Lane At Olton Station

Cheer Up Kid! Once I’d heard this greeting at the bar then I knew I was back on home turf. Olton really is home territory for me as I caught a bus from the station to school for five years and lived there for around 25 years so any trip back there is memory lane.…

Happy Times At The Highwood

I clearly like the excitement of a solid, earthy, no nonsense, lively boozer and I reckon it has a lot to do with your early experiences. If your first visit to a pub at 18 is to somewhere like a Farmhouse Inns or Fayre and Square pub then you’re unlikely to become a lover of…